5 Tomato Growing Tips For JUNE 

I don’t even get mine in the ground until June. Even looking at the forecast, Monday (June 10) is looking dicey for frost. So far I’ve only planted the ones that go next to a south-facing brick wall that stays warm.

I have plants up to my belt and I'm 6ft tall. Lots of 1 inch tomatoes and up to 3 inch diameter.I start my plants 10 weeks before May 15.thats our 6a Mid Ohio freeze date.Im expected to have salad tomatoes by June 20 and Black Krim late June. My best looking seedlings in my 4th season with seedings. Thanks you 2 has been helpful

Meanwhile in Canada, it's 10° C (50° Fahrenheit in mid June and I'm worried my peppers are going to get damaged 😂

My sweet 100 and my yellow pear tomato plants got hit hard by the frost one night this spring before i was even able to get them in the ground. The leaves were all dead, but the stems looked salvageable, so i kept them in a spot that gets morning sun and afternoon shade. All of the points where the suckers were going to grow survived, so i kept them watered and let them do their thing. Now, they're the biggest tomato plants in my garden. Bigger than the pre established ones that i bought shortly after and are planted directly in the ground. My survivor tomatoes are in pots with drainage holes. (As long as they have those drainage holes, they should be fine. My tomatoes last year grew their roots out of the drainage holes and a good foot or two into the ground.

Fine I’ve already had five days in the month of June over 102°. I’ll be lucky if they survive the summer. I have now covered by garden with white shade cloth from Bootstrap.

THANK YOU. Your timing is perfect!

I'm forced to plant in 5-gallon fabric bags that offer excellent drainage qualities. I fill them with equal-parts good quality potting mix, composted cow and fish manure, and coconut fiber to keep soil texture light. In the planting hole goes a handful of dry organic tomato fertilizer. I mix a heaping tablespoon of powdered calcium into the soil, set the 8-10" starts deep and firm the soil, then mulch with 1-2" of clean pine shavings. This combination, along with fairly conservative pruning results in fruits that never suffer from blossom-end rot (from lack of calcium uptake) or cracking as the daily watering drains well, no matter if I over-do it. There is no fungus in the sterile mix and the leaves never touch dirt. I sometimes get some leaf curling due to intense sun, but it doesn't seem to affect production. I've been doing it this way for years, and even re-use the same soil every year, with just some added compost to re-fortify it.

All good ideas! However, if you are trying to remain pesticide free in your garden and you're considering mulching with grass cuttings, make sure your grass is pesticide free. A lot of homeowners use various treatments in their yards which would leach into their garden soil potentially. I personally avoid using grass clippings even though we don't treat our property any longer - mostly because our neighbors do, and that stuff spreads. Plus, introduction of weeds is a headache. Cheers!

Thank you so much for sharing some great tips and information about growing tomatoes

awesome recommendations! i live in south texas and have been having a lot of issues with my tomatoes that i planted late... the shade cloth is gonna help

Great information. Thanks

Mine are looking great in Ohio as well! Started them all from seed this year and having good progress so far.

Did you say you lived in New England? Because I do as well and this year is my first year of growing tomatoes since my retirement. If you do live in New England I will be watching you videos and hopefully going back to watching ones you have already produced. I live in southern New Hampshire.

Down here in Texas, my tomatoe plants are almost 4ft tall! Sorry to my friends way up north.

Here in Iowa it’s been 90 but fully cloudy; is it the air temperature alone a stressor, or is it temp plus sunny skies?

thank you!

My tomatoes here in Southern Minnesota were doing beautifully and I just saw that two of the plants have these little black spots all over them. I want to correct this before it spreads to the other five tomatoes or companion plants. Help!

My tomatoes look great, I'm in midcoast Maine so they're not as tall as yours yet. I'm not giving them any nitrogen this year and I'm only pruning in the morning of a sunny, dry day to help avoid disease.

I have two tomato plants in two separate, probably 5-7 gallon planting buckets. Holes in the bottom. Got good soils in there. Dont overwater. Probably every other day. Still doesn't look right. Leaves seem wilted a smidgen. They are producing fruit. Put em in the beginning of May. No idea what the deal is. I make sure the soil doesnt dry out. Water at the base. Doesnt seem right. Bad soil maybe? I dunno

Blossom end rot is usually from lack of calcium in the soil which can be amended with either Gypsum or Fish bone meal.

So sad for my tomatoe plant's,, fungus gnats in the soil,,,, they are sucking my plant dry..pleas i need help on what to do..😢

Me in Canada who randomly decided to grow tamatos not knowing what I was getting into😂 it just gave its first flowers and its June while my peppers are crying🎉

Put mine in at the end of April

I already got my first harvest from my Roma tomatoes. It is rare that any of them are still alive in June but two are still alive and one is flowering despite the hot Temperatures. We hit 100 2 days ago and have been consistently in the 90’s for the last month. Night temperatures usually get into the 70’s but one night we never dropped below 80. I defiantly need to save some of those seeds from that plant and hope it’s offspring are just as heat tolerant as it’s parent.

Growing tomatoes for the first time in my glass balcony and they are looking amazing! The only problem is I have no idea what type they are 😂

In South Texas… some of my tomatoes are well over 10ft tall already (planted in late March) have already “leaned and lowered” twice on some of these the growth is unreal on some of these

Cherry tomatoes are actually indeterminant tomatoes and like to be pruned. The large tomatoes are determinant and don’t really need to be pruned. I’m in southeast mass by the way. Where are you located?

June is the beginning of Winter in Australia and I have 2 gorgeous tomatoes plants outdoors however 1 is not giving flowers and the other one has 3 gorgeous yellow flowers 🎉❤ I am thinking to put them inside the house to avoid seeing them frosted

My tomatoes was growing well but all destroyed (all of my vegetables) because of Hail Storm yesterday 😭 I'm in Italy and it's almost summer here😢

Great video.

Hello from Istanbul.I just came across your channel and I subscribed.Thank you for your informative videos.We request Turkish subtitles for your videos.Good lock.

I have read a study that black shade cloth is better because it absorbs the heat rather than reflect heat on the plants. Something to think about.

Learn a lot from this video, very informative.. New subscriber here from Growing My Own.

I trimmed mine and they are still getting yellow leaves higher up the plant. I have watered used fungiside spray, Rot Stop which is calcium and used fish fertilizer. Nothing has worked on stoping the problem with leaves yellowing on me. My plants look bad because of it. The weather here has been really hot and not alotof rain.

What is the tool you are using to sharpen the clippers?

I snapped the bottom of my cherry tomato today :(. It was growing fruit. I pulled up the roots and then I buried the bottom where it broke. Maybe a miracle will happen and grown some new roots. I still have a beef steak tomato plant growing also.

I just began my seeds about 3 weeks ago. I have 7 healthy 5 inch tall plants so far. But i was wondering what specific fertilizer combo do you recommend ? I live in North Ms, been above 85 the last 2 weeks. Gonna be near 100 the next two.....my seedlings are needing fertilizer as i water them bi-daily theyre showing signs of deficiency at the leaf ends since 2 days ago.

Can I use dried leaves from my yard from last year for mulching?

I like straw for mulch but it produces a lot of grasses

About shade cloth-what I observed with white shade cloth was it was hotter. We use it over the patio and the brightness was there which I guess would be better for plants? But we found it too hot and went back to black. Now the white cloth I was using was designed for patios and was a tighter mesh-but still too bright. Question-how do you suspend your shade cloth over tomatoes that are 5+’? The hoops don’t cut it. I’m trying to figure out the easiest way to suspend it. Every year we connect it to various t-posts and if available a tall post. It tends to touch the tops of tomatoes and in a wind flys up in the air. And to protect the cloth we used plastic cups but they fly up also. Any suggestions are welcome as it’s a daunting task to do every year with these heat waves. We use cattle panels to support tomatoes. Thanks for the tips, but I never seem to keep up with those suckers😂.

It’s been getting cool here in southern Ohio this last week! Scary

Thanks nice vid, can I use grass cuttings as mulch on top of the soil?

I want to do this in june , could you please send me best verity name for ultimate hot climate

What’s a sucker?

i started my tomato starts at the end of may and they still have barely any leaves on them.

I’ve done pruning my tomato plants are in big pots, my smaller tomato plant has 1 tomato on it. My beef tomato plant has produced nothing but its got flowers and leaves on it I shake the stems ever now and then to spread the flower pollen cause it’s not windy. Why is it taking so long to produce tomatoes?

It’s not too late to plant alyssum?

Hiello from North Eastern Michigan.... 8:48 hover flies are one of my favorite bugs! I love watching those guys! I did not know that the alyssum attracted them. I'm so blessed to have a bunch of alyssum all throughout my hanging baskets. I will definitely be on the lookout for those little guys now. Great video btw! Thank you for all the awesome tips! I know my tomatoes would do great this year ❤

I believe you said it backwards... cherry tomatoes are 'indeterminate' and you don't want to cut out the suckers. Beefstakes are determinate and you do want to remove the suckers to promote more structure to grow tomatoes on.

I need to search for squirrel prevention, they got every tomato as soon as it starts to ripen

You selling shadecloth? People have been growing tomatoes for centuries in open sun

why would you do that in the middle of winter ?

Whats a sucker?

fake sound effects.

First mistake, prune the tomatoes. This means, wasting time and make them susceptible to diseases. Its true, you will get bigger fruits but less total weight per plant. Why people keep doing it its a mistery to me

nice video